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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

Henri Bergson

Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

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